Greetings, my name is David Colarusso. I'm the co-director of Suffolk University Law School's Legal Innovation & Technology (LIT) Lab. With one foot in law and the other in tech, I really want the open web to thrive. So I created a bot (@icymilaw.org) and this site to help folks discover great law-themed content while showing off what one can do with sufficiently open protocols. Note, the number of fire emoji represent how many standard deviations more popular a link is than the average link observed in its category.
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News-like Links
A collection of links shared recently¹ by legal-type folks² with URLs that look like they point to news articles,³ sorted by popularity.
- NAACP sues Virginia officials, accusing them of disenfranchising student voters 🔥🔥🔥The NAACP has sued Virginia state election officials, accusing them of disenfranchising students by rejecting voter registration forms from students that do not include details like dormitory names, room numbers and campus mailbox information.
- Opinion | Trump’s politicizing of the U.S. military is accelerating 🔥🔥🔥Why are so many generals getting fired? Congress should summon them to find out.
- Nigel Farage to promise business deregulation in economic policy speech† 🔥🔥🔥Reform UK leader to set out ‘pro-entrepreneurship’ agenda while rowing back on tax cuts pledge ...
- Exclusive: Trump moves to fire watchdog of US housing regulator involved in crackdown, sources say 🔥🔥🔥The internal watchdog for the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency is being removed from his role, four people familiar with the matter said, at a time when the housing regulator is playing a role in President Donald Trump's targeting of perceived political enemies.
- Ofwat letting water firms charge twice to tackle sewage, court to hear 🔥🔥River Action bringing legal action against water regulator over who should foot bill for firms’ past failures to invest ...
- Equality commission’s guidance after sex ruling is fundamentally unworkable | Letter 🔥🔥Letters: The EHRC has ignored warnings about the contradiction between possibly being sued for challenging someone’s gender versus being sued for failing to, says Rachel Taylor MP ...
- Trump moves to block public servants from loan forgiveness based on ideology 🔥Those who work with undocumented immigrants, provide gender transition care for minors or publicly protest could be blocked from student loan forgiveness under a new rule.
- UK ‘to lose 600,000 workers to illness without better health support at work’ 🔥Exclusive: Royal Society of Public Health says ‘fundamental shift’ needed in how firms help those with health conditions ...
- Opinion | The New Right’s New Antisemites 🔥Kevin Roberts of the Heritage Foundation flounders in the Tucker Carlson-Nick Fuentes fever swamps.
- We are ready to discuss human rights law changes, top ECHR boss tells BBC 🔥Alain Berset, Council of Europe secretary general, said human rights laws may need to "change or adapt".
- Starmer was briefed on Mandelson’s Epstein links before appointing him, say civil servants 🔥PM had been given ‘summary of reputational risks’ but did not know about contents of emails before PMQs, MPs told ...
Blog-like Links
A collection of links shared recently⁴ by legal-type folks⁵ with URLs that look like they point to blogs/newsletters,⁶ sorted by popularity.
- We’re Number Two! 🔥🔥How Trump ceded the future to China ...
- SCOOP: Latino Tenants Told to Vacate After Georgetown ICE Raid 🔥🔥Witnesses describe multi-agency sweep at Wisconsin & O St. NW; 10–12 taken; Latino units “tossed;” ammunition left in the hallway, and tenants told to vacate.
- NEWS: Trump Threatens Grocery Stores Offering Discounts to SNAP Eligible Americans as Voters Turn on White House 🔥Trump threatens grocery stores offering relief for SNAP eligible shoppers, Trump voters say they regret voting for him, Trump pays out part of SNAP, Democrats call for 60 Minutes investigation ...
- November 3, 2025 🔥At the end of her interview with President Donald J.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 242. 11/3/25 🔥… Trump’s interview with the new CBS’s 60 Minutes aired last night.
- The Week Ahead 🔥November 2, 2025 ...
AI & The Law Links
A collection of links shared recently⁷ on Bluesky that look like they talk about AI & the law,⁸ sorted by popularity.
- Flock Logins Exposed In Malware Infections, Senator Asks FTC to Investigate the Company 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Senator Ron Wyden says AI-camera company Flock is violating federal law by not enforcing multi-factor authentication. 404 Media previously found Flock credentials included in infostealer infections.
- An OpenAI Founder Discusses Anthropic Merger Talks, Internal Beefs in Deposition 🔥Anthropic initially expressed “excitement” about a possible merger with OpenAI two years ago, after OpenAI’s board fired CEO Sam Altman, OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever tol...
- The GoLaxy Documents† The GoLaxy Documents: Inside One Chinese Company’s AI-Driven Influence Machine A Vanderbilt Institute of National Security archive detailing how state-aligned firm GoLaxy harvests data, builds precisi...
- Studio Ghibli and other Japanese publishers want OpenAI to stop training on their work | TechCrunch OpenAI's approach to working with copyrighted content is to ask forgiveness, not permission.
- Why the Biggest Record Company Is Teaming Up With the AI-Music Company It Was Just Suing
Law Review-like Links
A collection of links shared recently⁹ on Bluesky that look like they point to papers in law journals or the like,¹⁰ sorted by popularity.
- Distress-Proofing Social Enterprises Bankruptcy scholars disagree about whether financial distress means the end of social enterprise. In United States bankruptcy courts, the filing of a bank ...
AI Paper-like Links
A collection of links shared recently¹¹ on Bluesky that look like they point to papers on AI,¹² sorted by popularity. Wondering why this section is on a site about the law? Well, I teach a course on AI & the Law, and it turns out that understanding this stuff is super important to figuring out what the law might have to say. So, I figured since I was sharing lists, I might as well share this one too.
- Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog† 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Scheherazade: Evaluating Chain-of-Thought Math Reasoning in LLMs with Chain-of-Problems† Benchmarks are critical for measuring Large Language Model (LLM) reasoning capabilities. Some benchmarks have even become the de facto indicator of such capabilities. However, as LLM reasoning capabil...
- Large Language Models Report Subjective Experience Under Self-Referential Processing† Large language models sometimes produce structured, first-person descriptions that explicitly reference awareness or subjective experience. To better understand this behavior, we investigate one theor...
- Ai Makes You Smarter, But None the Wiser: The Disconnect between Performance and Metacognition† Optimizing human-AI interaction requires users to reflect on their performance critically, yet little is known about generative AI systems' effect on users ...
- Delegate Pricing Decisions to an Algorithm? Experimental Evidence We analyze the delegation of pricing by participants, representing firms, to a collusive, self-learning algorithm in a repeated Bertrand experiment. In the baseline treatment, participants set prices ...
The High Score
The 20 accounts most reposted by @icymilaw.org over the past week¹³ (the list below is updated every Sunday). High Score, get it? One Score = 20, as in, "four score and seven years ago." ;)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jolyon Maugham KC (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Julie DiCaro (@juliedicaro.bsky.social)
- Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Ryan Miller (@davidryanmiller.com) (promoted)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden (@sandraduffy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Omri Marian (@omrimarian.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Denys Beecher (@dbeecher.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Fionna O’Leary (@fascinatorfun.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jen Taub (@jentaub.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonmladd.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 (@chanda.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (relegated)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Matthew Stiegler (@matthewstiegler.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com) (relegated)
† This link was also in yesterday's digest. ¹ Approx. 1 day lookback. ² Attorneys, law profs, et al. ³ News-like links (law) ⁴ Supra note 1. ⁵ Supra note 2. ⁶ Blog-like links (law) ⁷ Approx. 3.5 days lookback. ⁸ AI & the Law ⁹ Approx. 1 week lookback. ¹⁰ Law Review-like ¹¹ Supra note 9. ¹² AI Papers et al. ¹³ High Score
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